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Huang qi, Echinacea, and Elderberry can be a

help for Releasing Symptoms of COVID-19

By Namwook Cho L.Ac.

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infects poultry (Jin, Int J Biol species of echinacea may inhibit elderberry shortens the duration
Macromol 2014; Zhang, Microb coronaviruses. of the flu, but more studies are
Pathog 2018). In China, astragalus, needed to corroborate this. There
alone, and in combination with The ConsumerLab introduced a is no evidence that elderberry
other herbs, has been suggested study, "laboratory study found extract can prevent COVID-19
to potentially help prevent that a particular branded form or reduce symptoms in people
COVID-19 infections (Yang, Int of echinacea inhibited specific who have been infected.
J Biol Sci 2020). coronaviruses, including (HCoV) There is a concern for the
Researchers have advised that a 229E, MERS- and SARS-CoVs, herb that can trigger a
daily dose of 4 to 7 grams of root and the researchers suggested it cytokine storm, which is an
△ Acupuncture needles and herbs are good friends of powder may be the best dosage could potentially have a similar overreaction of the human
acupuncturists as always. imageⓒAdobeStock_banprik
for increasing macrophage activity. effect on SARS-CoV-2, the immune system by producing
Huang qi is an herb that has astragalosides and other Although the herb has been coronavirus that causes COVID-19, a high level of cytokines and
traditionally been used in compounds in astragalus increase proven partial effectiveness for although it was not tested". immune cells among some
Asian medicine to enhance Qi the production of white blood enhancing the immune system, of the COVID-19 patients.
movements and to strengthen cells, particularly T cells and there are things you should be Elderberry extract has been (Mehta, Lancet 2020).
the body's immune system. macrophages, and other cells careful with taking it. shown in laboratory studies
Notably, the herb took essential important for immune system Due to its immune-stimulating to inhibit the replication and According to the site, "There is
roles in the herbal formulas function (Block, Integr Cancer effects, people with autoimmune hemagglutination of human flu another study found an elderberry
for cold symptoms. It could be Ther 2003)." disease and those taking viruses, including certain strains tincture decreased levels of
purchased in powder, extract or It has also been shown to have immunosuppressant drugs (such of Influenza A and B, and H1N1. inflammatory cytokines." There
tea, or formula in the US. anti-inflammatory and anti- as after organ transplantation) Small, preliminary trials in do not appear to be studies on
According to the ConsumerLab. viral effects, including activity should not take astragalus. people with the flu suggest the effects of elderberry extract
com, "Laboratory and animal against a particular type of the Studies in laboratories (but not in that taken within the first day on cytokine levels in people with
studies suggest polysaccharides, Corona virus that commonly people) have shown that certain or so of experiencing symptoms, severe respiratory infections.

Acupuncture and Philosophy

Whitehead’s Actual Entity/Actual Occasion interpreted by

the reciprocity logic of Yinyang (陰陽待對).

By Simon Kim, Professor, South Baylo University

relationship of Yin qi and Yang Philosophy, edited by Ernan remainder either into its physical
qi looks like two poles of one McMullin, 1963) According to prehensions of other AE. (PR,
world. I already introduced the his analysis of Whiteheadian 134). Nor can these two poles
concept of reciprocity in the realism, distinctions of Actual be disjoined in order to be
section of the Yinyang theory. Entity and Actual Occasion - a interpreted as two independent
Reciprocity (待對) means that basic concept of the philosophy AEs in their own right. Likewise
one thing is given or done of organism - are attempts to the relationship of Yin and
or owed to each other. The locate ultimate and irreducible Yang, an actual entity can
Taiji diagram expresses the categoreal distinctions. Rorty retain its integrity only by being
reciprocity logic exactly. The argued for the correlative interpreted in terms of both
Yinyang reciprocity is a way of relation of AE and AO that levels of entities.
thinking that carries time and something can only sustain The philosophy of organism
mobility in the process of qi external relations if it also shows apparently a reciprocal
realization. When I defined the sustains internal relations, or the and correlative logic which can
△ Yinyang reciprocity diagram. imageⓒAdobeStock_Graphic
Resources concept of Yin and Yang, I called converse, or both. be applied to both Yinqi /Yangqi
the organic synthesis of Yin qi Some prominent philosophers and AE/AO. According to
Last month, I contended that concept of the qi philosophy, we and Yang qi as the reciprocity of who can interpret Whitehead’s Rorty’s interpretation, each level
there is a certain commonality cannot capture any phenomena qi organism. metaphysical theory of organism of AE/AO must be essentially
between the cosmology of the in the whole universe. From As Richard Rorty (1931- tend to define AE as Yin qi incomplete, and completable
philosophy of organism and the matter, virus and to the 1998) spotlighted the anti- and AO as Yang qi. “While the only by interpretation in terms
the Qi philosophy: the union of human body, there is nothing reductionistic features of Yinqi from inside serves to hold of the other level. As such, two
Heaven and Human (天人合一). that cannot be seen through the Whitehead’s cosmology, the active Yangqi, the Yangqi philosophies, the Qi philosophy
Comparing with macroscopic Yinyang structure. As you know, he unwittingly verified which exists outside vitalizes and the philosophy of organism,
cosmology, the Yinyang theory the concept of Yinyang is the the reciprocity logic of the the inner Yinqi. (陰在內 陽之 inevitably used the reciprocity
is a sort of microscopic theme most pervasive idea in the East philosophy of organism. 守也 陽在外 陰之使也: 內經 素 logic of yin and yang because of
in the interpretation of nature. Asian medicine. (‘Matter and Event’ from The 問)” Whitehead holds that an the common view that all beings
However, without this basic In the organismic Qi world, the Concept of Matter in Modern AE cannot be analyzed without in nature are interconnected.